Keshia M. Pollack Porter is the Dean of Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Prior to this role, she was the Bloomberg Centennial Chair of the Department of Health Policy and Management. She is a Bloomberg Centennial Professor. Dr. Pollack Porter’s research advances policies that create safe and healthy environments where people live, work, play, and travel. Her research has addressed active play, sports injury prevention, active transportation, and the nexus of transportation and health. She is also an expert in advancing health equity and policy change using tools such as health impact assessment and strategies that promote health in all policies.
She earned her Ph.D. in health policy and management from Johns Hopkins University, M.P.H. in public health from Yale University, and B.A. in sociology and community health from Tufts University.
